"Sister Axia, I know you have a lot of doubts in your heart, but I don't know exactly what's going on."
Teresa thought for a while and said, "Let's explain this matter slowly. Now, let's check around and find out the situation in the core area of the bridge!"
It is said to be an investigation, but in fact, the surroundings can be seen at a glance. It is a silver-white space of one hundred meters square. Both the ground and the walls are as soft as fine sand and rubber. will be greatly cushioned.
Such flexible materials ensure the safety of the crew and equipment when the starship is hit violently.
But the surrounding area was empty, and there were no secret passages. Teresa and Princess Axia were really puzzled and didn't know what to do next.
Not necessarily, they will be imprisoned here for the rest of their lives, right
Teresa recalled the details of the attack just now, pondered for a moment, and cut lightly on her palm with the broken knife, cutting a bloody wound and leaving a bright red palm print on the ground.
Sure enough, the blood droplets in the palm prints were quickly absorbed by the silver-white fine sand, and then, the metallic fine sand surged up like a fountain, with a wider and wider range and higher height, until finally, it became A pile of silver-white columns as tall as a person.
The cylinder is like steel just taken out of the furnace. The molten iron flows continuously, and soon reveals a tall and fit female silhouette. Soon, the facial features, limbs, fingers and toes are separated, a liquid metal, lifelike statue, Presented in front of Teresa and Princess Axia.
"what-"
Princess Axia exclaimed.
Not because of the liquid metal statue gushing out of the ground, but because the appearance of this statue is similar to Teresa!
It cannot be said that their facial features are exactly the same, only that the amorous feelings between the eyebrows and eyes, and the heroic temperament, have a feeling of blood connection, like sisters or mothers and daughters.
Teresa was also taken aback, feeling as if she was looking in a mirror.
She knew very well that her real self was not what she is now. Why is this liquid metal statue so similar to the one concocted by "Amoebae" Eric
Under the shocked eyes of the two, the liquid metal statue was completely separated from the floor, and the details of the face were drawn more vividly, and even the eyelashes were completely visible. It—her silver-white eyelashes trembled slightly. opened his eyes.
Her eyeballs were clearly cast from silvery-white liquid metal, but they bloomed with a rainbow-like brilliance, as if the eyes that had been dusty for thousands of years passed by Princess Axia's body and stopped on Teresa's body.
"You are finally here, carrier of the 'witch gene'."
The woman cast from liquid metal spoke, her voice was calm and emotionless, like a cold machine.
"what!"
Princess Axia covered her mouth in surprise, she didn't expect this thing to be able to speak.
Although Teresa was shocked in her heart, she was better than Princess Axia after all. She took half a step back, took a deep breath, and said, "You, who are you? Are you... the artificial intelligence in the central control system of the Emerald?"
The other party tilted his head and thought for a while, and said: "Yes, I am the Emerald itself, or to describe it in an older language, I am the central thinking core in the fully automatic control system of the Emerald, some kind of super artificial intelligence, you You can call me directly—'Emerald'."
"Then your appearance..." Teresa hesitated, rubbing her cheek subconsciously.
"This is the image of Kelly Connor, the last captain of the Emerald. After she died in battle, the Emerald also exhausted all its energy, and the damage was extremely serious. Automatic repair."
Jade said sternly, "At that time, most of the crew members who mastered the maintenance and operation skills of starships all died in the escape and civil war. Waiting quietly for the arrival of the new captain."
"I see. Is the so-called 'Witch Kelly' or the 'Crimson Queen' the last human captain of the Emerald? In other words, 'The Legacy of the Scarlet Queen' is the highest control authority of the Emerald, or The captain's throne?"
Teresa suddenly realized, but fell into deeper confusion, "Wait, what did you call me just now, you said that I am... a 'carrier of the witch gene', what is that?"
"Don't you know it yourself?"
Fei Cui said, "If you are not a carrier of the witch gene, you will not be able to enter the core area of the bridge, nor will you be able to activate the automatic defense system, and you will not be qualified to talk to me—the first time you invade the core area of the bridge, Just like the tentacles of that alien life, it was crushed mercilessly."
Only then did Teresa realize that the reason why her desperate attempt was successful was not because of her pitiful "first-level fire control authority", but because of the "witch gene" contained in her blood, what the hell is that!
"It's not an easy task to control a super starship like the Emerald, lead the entire exile fleet to escape the flood, and wander forever in the endless star journey."
Fei Cui explained, "So, when every new captain takes office, he must read the logbooks left by all the previous captains and master all their skills in order to be barely competent.
"The brains of carbon-based intelligent life cannot digest and absorb such a huge amount of data in a short period of time. Therefore, the Yuanshi Clan invented the superb technology of 'genetic learning' to transfer a large amount of information related to starship control, command, and combat. All embedded in the gene fragment.
"During the tens of thousands of years of wandering the galaxy, every captain of the Emerald will silently cultivate this super gene that contains infinite wisdom in his body, and before he dies, pass it on to the next captain. Having acquired the genetic fragments of hundreds of previous generations of captains, manipulating the starship became his instinct, just like a baby will suck and cry when it is born.
"When it was Captain Kelly's turn to leave her legacy behind, the situation became even more severe—at that time, the Emerald had only 1% of its energy reserves left, but the damage range reached more than 90%, which was a standard 'big break'.
"The crew's automated breeding and breeding systems have been destroyed, which means that the new generation of crew members can only rely on natural reproduction and word of mouth, and will never be able to master the mysterious and complicated starship operation skills. It is estimated that in the next few thousand years, it will be impossible. Someone is qualified to be the captain and lead the Emerald to fly to the Star Sea again.
"Therefore, Captain Kelly put forward all the genetic essence that condensed hundreds of generations of captains, exhausted the last energy, copied and sealed it up, hoping that after tens of millions of years, the energy reserve and technical conditions will mature again, and the emerald When the ship is largely restored, the descendants of the Emerald will extract the gene code-named 'Witch' and inject it into their bodies to become candidates for the new captain."
Teresa was taken aback for a moment.
It condenses the genetic essence of hundreds of generations of captains of the Emerald, and it sounds very powerful.
However, I have just traveled to the Emerald Continent not long ago, and I have no chance to come into contact with this "witch gene". How could I somehow become a carrier
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